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Posting screenshots of retro low-poly games in high resolutions using emulators, camera hacks and other tools for a better, sharper look at the artistry involved in making them.

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Deuce (PS1) (2000, Unreleased)

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The royal castle under siege with debris and fire surrounding the central red carpeted staircase and ornate door. The fateful night is well lit by the burning fires and the vertex lighting, creating lovely gradients of dark purple and orange. An enchanted forest. A mystical river with a beautiful curved bridge above it lit by torches on each end. A majestic waterfall seen in the distance. And a cluster of absolutely giant radioactive purple mushrooms scattered around, making the whole scene look like Pandora from Avatar. Any sort of starry sky or skybox of any kind is sill missing, making the scene even more moody. Continuing the black skies theme, we see a cobblestone paved village square with a large cylindrical stone altar or fountain or something, kind of shaped like a three-tiered cake that's been carved open from the front. This place looks almost like something from King's Field. A huge card knight of the four of clubs variety, appears to be guarding the interior of a castle, possibly a prison, wearing big shoulder pads, a big helm and wielding an even bigger sword with his huge huge hands, looking very mean.
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Deuce (PS1) (2000, Unreleased)

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Our hero, Deuce! He's an anthropomorphic card, a two of hearts to be more precise, hence the name. He's a lowly soldier with a 2D flat heart of gold on a quest to save the kingdom and the Royal Flush from the clutches of the evil Jack of Spades! Deuce's wearing an iron helm with a nose guard on his floaty head, looking very cheerful and cheeky despite his circumstances. He's standing in front of a giant castle gate with two other card soldiers holding the gate. A cozy looking medieval village settled atop a cliffside with a bridge or two with lit torches to illuminate the pitch-black night. Though to be fair the complete absence of any sky or stars might be due to the unfinished nature of the game. Still, it looks really nice so it would be a shame not to showcase all this lovely art. Deuce swinging his sword at a woolly fuzzy (or possibly made of stone, it's hard to tell) bipedal creature, sticking that blade right in the middle of its forehead though it looks mostly unperturbed and just angry. Deuce standing in a large castle hall lit by an intense green lighting, looking at a wall with a sort of a pinecone shaped door (or a buttplug, take your pick).
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Die Hard Trilogy (PS1) (1996)

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John arriving at Dulles Airport while a couple of cop cars are patrolling and people are milling about (for some reason it's just three clones of the same blonde, green shirt wearing ladies) while the pitch black night sky is covered in falling snow and a helicopter is flying around in the distance. John of course already has his gun out because he just expects for bad things to happen wherever he's at. McClane hiding in a small square room that sort of looks like a storage closet and sort of looks like a kitchen but maybe it's neither because it also has a mouse and keyboard connected to nothing at all. John is using the cunning strategy of exploiting the dumb game AI where all of the enemies kind of crowd together while trying to enter this narrow space so they line up very nicely for John to hasta la vista them to oblivion (wait, that's a different movie). Another cool technical detail I'd like to point out is that the game has this very smooth wall clipping seethrough effect that keeps the camera distant enough and also hide the walls so you can always see what's going on (and sometimes cheat by seeing who's behind a wall or a door). A nice shot of the airport interior already being thoroughly demolished by McClane with a nice escalator in the middle, lots of missing ceiling tiles and some exploding walls in the distance. A closeup of some pedestrians just walking about near a bank and a legally distinct Dice Pizza. This is actually a first person shot of the Die Hard 3 driving portion of the game so even though this screenshot looks simple enough, it's actually taken in motion while driving into the sidewalk, so it's not looking good for the people here. It's even more mindblowing when you realize the face texture of the closest pedestrian is the same as the one for Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson) so it's John driving a taxi about to run over Zeus while Zeus is also in the car with him. Videogames man.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Die Hard Trilogy (PS1) (1996)

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(whoops somehow uploaded very low res screenshots, let's try that again)
John McClane standing in an office hallway with a ho ho ho big machinegun opposite half a dozen dudes in blue jackets and green World War II helmets (?) guarding a guy in a pink shirt and a cool soul patch with massive red letters above his head spelling out the word BOSS. It's important to note that all the characters in this game are kinda 2D but made out of separate paper doll cutouts for each of the body parts, like head, torso, upper and lower arm etc. which creates this really wonky look to them but also opens up the game to have a lot of characters on screen. The other good part is that the faces of the enemies are just photos of the devs themselves making funny faces and looking all silly which is always a plus. Stand-ins for Bruce Willis and Samuel Leroy Jackson running towards a taxi standing in the middle of a park road, looking very disjointed in their paper doll look while the smallest blue helicopter is hovering right above their heads. It's kind of a cool wide lens shot with a nice glimpse of the park's treeline and cute pixel buildings in the distance under the most SEGA-ass blue sky you ever did experience. John doing John things, just strolling through an airport shooting at terrorists and making a mess of things. This game is technically kind of pretty impressive because there are three games in one, the framerates are pretty smooth and in the Die Hard 2 rail shooting part you can pretty much shoot anything on screen and it will react or be destroyed in some way, from the wall facades and ceilings to large and small objects, it's all very destructible and creates a great feel you don't see often. This makes it even more impressive when you realize this was made by a so called B team of Probe Software who were tasked in making this game in a very short time period while Team A was making Alien Trilogy (another very cool game). Check out one of the artists' Youtube channel, Dennis Gustafsson, that only has the 7 part playlist of a private in-house recording of the development of Die Hard Trilogy, it's a wonderful look at 90s game development and a bunch of enthusiastic folks working on games. https://www.youtube.com/@dennis9ustafsson/videos Also I just noticed while writing this that the face of the bad guy in this screenshot is the same person from the first screenshot with the boss character. A cool green wireframe look of Nakatomi Plaza shown after every level of the Die Hard 1 portion of the game, with a white outline showing the next floor you're about to arrive at.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Excalibur 2555 A.D. (PS1) (1997)

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A suave looking gentleman with a black buttoned up coat and a white shirt and black tie (it's either a white shirt or a pink-ish shirt because of the lighting, it's that 2015 dress optical illusion thing) and also wearing a Panama hat, throwing all of that business man look down the drain. His face looks suspiciously like Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith from The Matrix, it's uncanny. It's either that, or if you take the hat into account, he kinda looks like Trigger from Only Fools and Horses, I can't decide which. Beth encountering three angry men in some kind of warehouse-slash-Turkish-bath-house with nice purple lighting on the front wall. Them guys are wearing patchwork shirts and brownish shirts and pants and wielding caveman clubs though the entire scene is very dark so it's hard to see. What's not hard to see is that, again, in the US version Beth does not wear any pans, so it's just the red shirt that kind of continues as the shortest skirt possible and showing her black panties, showing off more than any Dead or Alive character ever did. Beth standing in front of a very tall bald man who is standing in front of some kind of factory-like entrance adorned with very psychedelic colors, and she's looking upwards at his bald bald head. The tall burly man is dressed in a very similar Arthurian-times fashion though actually wearing pants. He's got a very angry face that's a spitting image of Goro from Mortal Kombat. A closeup of a huge metallic or rock golem robot thing with hands on hips and Terminator-red eyes. He's guarding what appears to be a very heavy-looking metal door. If you disregard the rest of his body, his upper chest area looks like it's just made of a cast iron cauldron with his head sticking out of it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Excalibur 2555 A.D. (PS1) (1997)

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We see our hero Beth, looking a bit confused as she's just been transported through time inside some kind of cave or mine by none other than Merlin the wizard, to stop the evil soldiers of the future from stealing the famed sword Excalibur. She's sporting a blonde hair tied in a low bun, a red shirt with a bit of cleavage showing because it was the style at Arthurian times, wearing no pants and also weilding the largest, thickest sword you've ever seen. It's like Guts' Dragon Slayer sword but if it was only a third as long. It's not about the length, it's how you use it! A look at the same scene but from the original European version of the game (the rest of the screenshots are from the US version because I didn't even know there were any differences at the time of taking the other screenshots). In this original version, Beth has brown hair, looks a little bit angrier, her shirt is green and most importantly wears brown pants and knee high socks, all very Robin Hood like. So the US version had to be sexied-up because that was the only thing wrong with this game and it would surely boost sales. 👀 An injured soldier of the future with a very futuristic orange shirt and a Tiffany Blue vest, fingerless gloves (not because it's cool but because he don't have no fingers, he's too low poly for that), holding a gun and wearing a bandage on his head that's positioned a bit too high and then they just added more hair above it so his head is very elongated and his face very smushed. Hey, maybe that's a side effect of future people living in these mines so gravity has pulled their faces down more. I have to mention that all of the textures in this game look like they've been drawn in paint, and though there's nothing wrong with that, it does give off a more amateurish look, especially to the character faces, creating a unique art style that only Ringo Starr could love. Beth encountering a giant red scorpion (no not a RAD scorpion, though it's as big as one) and proceeding to slice and dice it with her chub sword. It's one of the many, many giant scorpions and spiders you fight in this game.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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C.O.P. The Recruit (NDS) (2009)

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Dan standing in the parking lot of the police City Control Division (CCD) building with a bunch of cop cars and even a van parked nearby. A big yellow arrow is floating in the air, pointing down to a yellow square on the ground where your next quest marker is located (it's all very very GTA, but on the NDS which is crazy impressive). There's a poster for some political campaign, possibly for electing a mayor with the name Koogan written on it and a portrait of a guy that looks like a mix of Dr. Breen from HL2 and Rudi Giuliani. What a terrifying thought. The office of the police chief with two wide desks with a PC monitor, a laptop and some files scattered about, some nice office chairs and a white couch. The interior designer did a heck of a job especially with the walls being fully painted with one separate color, so they're red (the floor), white and blue (the walls) in a very patriotic fashion. A nice look at the pristine glass covered city near the riverside with some trees, traffic and citizens walking about while the early-internet-era GIF skies loom ominously over everyone. Dan decided to visit the shooting range with red-brick walls and wooden floors, shooting targets that look like prohibition-era mafiosos and one of the cops nearby looking all confused and dead in the eyes while wielding a god damn pump action shot gun. So your average cop then.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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C.O.P. The Recruit (NDS) (2009)

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Our hero, Sam Miles, looking like a Hunger Games era Sam Claflin with short shaggy blonde hair, pink t-shirt and a denim jacket looking all cool and whatever with the city of New York behind him (well, actually it's a very bleak looking parking lot). The cloudy blue skies have a very pixely dithered pattern on them, giving off an early internet gif quality to it. The offices of the Criminal Overturn Program (C.O.P.), a huge room full of desks and monitors, looking more well equipped than a NASA control center. Dan driving a dingy pink car through a very long two-way tunnel with nice warm lighting and large commercial billboards for a financial services company called TekalTrust (I don't know why that would be relevant in any way but I thought I'd nevertheless include it in the description just to fill in space). Dan walking the streets with his service weapon out like a crazy person, the towering skyscrapers looking pristine in their glass facades. To keep the performance to a manageable level, the devs have really lowered the details on the big buildings to essentially just have a flat reflexive surface with no window lines and other details, so a good majority of the city looks like a futuristic glass maze. A couple of people are just walking pass Dan not even noticing his gun out, coz' this is NYC baby and it's all normal.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1) (1998)

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A cyan-and-yellow Lizard Bonfire being chased by a silver Assoluto Bisonte, driving dangerously through a long tunnel at night. The headlight light streaks from the Bisonte almost look like it's firing lasers at its target! An Assoluto Promessa driving through a winding city road with some buildings and construction cranes visible in the distance. The Promessa is a bit of a weird looking car with like a shark fin sticking out of the back, but maybe that's normal, I don't know diddly squat about cars. The same shark fin car with the Pac-Man PRC team colors being chased around the corner by an Âge Solo Prophetie wearing the salmon colors of the MMM (Micro Mouse Mappy) team. An actual proper screenshot of the game from the default camera angle, driving a white Âge Solo Prophetie through the Helter Skelter course, an urban area with a couple of large buildings in the distance and a cool little helicopter doing a flyby over you.
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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R4: Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1) (1998)

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A red Assoluto Rondine (they're all fictitious cars inspired by real life models afaik) driving through a night tunnel at a Dutch angle. It's got a bit of an odd design with the entire upper front part of the car being sliced at an angle into its own separate part but it's not easily visible from this angle. Weird cars are neat! A line of cars vying for supremacy, driving through a wide cobblestone road at night, with a silver Lizard Comrade leading the race. The car has a couple of blue stripes going through the middle and the words "RT SOLVALOU" on the hood, a reference to the starship from the Xevious series. A yellow and red Terrazi Ambitious adorned with the decals of the Pac Racing Club (PRC) inspired by Pac-Man with a big number 76 on the doors and the Pac-Man himself! A distant wide shot of a white Âge Solo Prophetie driving through a curvy winding cliffside road. R4 is a beautiful game but shots like these can really make it shine!
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Crash Bandicoot (PS1) (1998)

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A good look at the diorama of N. Sanity island with its tall spiky clifs and massive central mountain, with palm trees, wooden fortress walls and a cute little ziggurat scattered around the sandy edges of the island. An ancient temple, a beautiful waterfall, a big TNT box with the words BIG TNT on it and two adversaries, two forces of nature standing on opposite sides on a couple of floating platforms. Crash on the left, Ripper Roo on the right, who will win? Ripper Roo is a blue-furred kangaroo wearing a straitjacket, all cross eyed and tongue sticking out. Apparently Dr. Neo Cortex left him strapped to the Cortex Vortex mind control machine for a bit too long, resulting in his looney disposition. The collective noun for bats is a colony, but these are just three cute bats flying in a row, so it's more like a threesome, a party or a good time of bats. I really like the way they're modeled, extremely few polygons, cute little smushed faces and big eyes and even bigger triangle ears, just flying around, doing bat things through some temple ruins, completely passing by the big cache of stored Wumpa fruit right there in the background. After a long adventure and a dramatic final fight (which you'll have to play to see!), Crash and his girlfriend Tawna fly off in Dr. Neo Cortex's airship (which naturally has a giant N on its tail fin) into the golden beautiful sunset.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Crash Bandicoot (PS1) (1998)

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Two middle-aged men (one of them with a giant N on his forehead that stands for "nerd") with too much time on their hands build a machine to torture animals with electroshocks, but tampering with nature is never a good idea so I'm sure they'll get what they deserve by the end of the this game... and the next 20 sequels. I'm of course talking about Dr. Neo Cortex and his high school buddy and assistant Dr. Nitrus Brio, depicted here as they're putting Crash Bandicoot through their mutation and brainwashing machine which fails horribly and gives enough time for Crash to escape! Crash being adorned by the mask of the witch doctor spirit Aku Aku, a flat piece of wood with misaligned eyes, a beautiful mouth with big sensual lips and a few feathers on top. Oodabaga! Pinstripe Potoroo, a slick, well dressed anthropomorphic marsupial mafioso (what a mouthful!) doing his best Scarface impression while shooting his Tommy gun at you. His office is pretty fancy with a fancy rug and a fancy mahogany table (now flipped and used as cover) with a giant portrait of Dr. Neo Cortex adorning the wall on the right. Behind Pinstripe Potoroo is a big cylindrical room with a vat of green goo and a central spherical doodad with lots of pipes connected to it, looking very ominous. I bet they're brewing some mean spirits in that distillery. A shoulder cam following Crash right into Dr. Nitrus Brio's lair. A short but elongated man with an even more elongated head (he's full of contradictions, both physically and emotionally), holding a couple of beakers of pink and green fluids, surrounded by all sorts of chemical equipment. You can tell he's ready to party. His laboratory is pretty cozy with ominous stone walls and a spiky iron fence guarding a big castle window and letting the moonlight in.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth (N64) (1998)

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A closeup at one of the mech bosses, half shrouded in darkness, waiting for you to approach and attack. The words "All Systems Reinitiallization Complete" are displayed at the top. Uh oh, this chunky mech is gonna reinitialize your ass! The Earth star forces fleet with their USB stick shaped blue battleships moving forward into the fray and getting hammered hard by the alien armada. Our hero ship is kinda cowardly hiding behind them, along for the ride, waiting for the right time to either swoop in and strike or escape when nobody's lookin'. A better look at the cyberspace mech boss, looking a bit banged up with both of his arms missing but still having them legs for days. I really like his hat, he's got that Optimus Prime style mask with a single eye and kind of a spike-like hat sticking out upwards. I say spike but it looks a bit like something else. 👀 The cyberspace environment seems very perturbed by the whole situation so the entire world is now just splintered in hexagonal cyber-shapes and red hexagons displaying the message "SYSTEM ERROR" in a very Evangelionesque way. A very close closeup of the F98 Soldier Blade fighter ship, perhaps a bit too close since the low-res textures give it a very muddied look. It's still a pretty badass design though. I guess I took this screenshot during a cutscene so the words "e graves... It is very" are displayed at the bottom like a cryptic message or a game bug, so we'll never know what it is that is "very", or why.
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth (N64) (1998)

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The F98 Soldier Blade fighter ship being deployed by a large yellow dropship in deep space. The dropship design in particular is pretty cool and striking, with many engine exhausts adorning the yellow mama-bird ship, opening the back hangar to reveal our hero's ship. It all looks very calm in the vast darkness of space, though that calm will be immediately broken by the alien invasion of the sentient machine Zeograd forces! The F98 Soldier Blade flying toward the camera with a distant red moon seen in the upper right corner of the screen. The fighter ship has a fancy arrowhead design with silver and red segments and a few green details on the top mounted guns and the cockpit glass. We can see the engine going full blast by the spherical exhaust blasting from the back of the ship. Boy he sure is in a hurry! Flying through a cyberspace-like environment with two big purple octagonal shapes sticking out of the dark blue sea of information. The enemy forces are rushing in but the Soldier Blade is making mince meat of them. This must be what it looks like in the TRON world when an online argument is underway. Zipping low over a beautiful blue ocean while a giant black boss ship is spewing an absolute torrent of a giant purple laser, narrowly dodged by the Soldier Blade. It must've been chargin' it for a while there. Two hexagonal drone things are sending beams of purple electricity (the worst kind) to the enemy ship to power it up.
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Centipede (PS1) (1999)

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A better look at the Weedom, a green and rocky archipelago of small villages, an endless ocean and a beautiful purple-orange sunset. There's a few buildings and a cute little windmill scattered about with huge mushrooms, plants and a drawbridge lifted up, separating the few small buildings from the rest of the landmass. I can't say this game has the best art direction by any means, it's got that early 3D look made by people who were still sinking their teeth into the new technology, but there's something charming about that even if they didn't always succeed in their attempts. Wally flying through the grassy plains of the Weedom, dodging giant mushrooms and approaching a cozy little castle with cute little spires and towers scattered all around the edges. A big wooden gate blocks the entrance with a big yellow 8-pronged star symbol painted on the gate. Are these people sun worshipers, or perhaps followers of the Noble Eightfold Path from Buddhism? Perhaps they're just fans of emojis. A close look at a giant praying mantis scouting the icy mountains. It looks lean, mean and its skin is radioactive green! Wally flying through a mushroom maze, through grass and drit, approaching another centipede monster, this time a mix of ruby-red segments and bright cyan spikes and legs (it looks kinda yummy!) with some icy, snowy hills seen in the distance. Our hero is taking a few shots at the centipede and one of the proton balls seems to have hit the centipede in the head, though it kinda looks like you've given it a little kiss on the cheek and a little star sparkle appeared on the kissy spot. Awww.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Centipede (PS1) (1999)

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The eponymous centipede, this time sporting a trippy blue and orange look, rather sharp teeth and threatening snake eyes, wiggling around with its little leggies. The terrain is rocky with some grass (the green parts of the textures, ok?) and very spiky parts of the ground sticking out and there's some orange mushrooms scattered about. I wonder if they're edible? Our hero, Wally Gudmunzsun (incredible name) piloting his signature hovercraft, The Shooter, driving it carelessly around what appears to be a village with some nice medieval houses. Is this the first GTA before GTA? I think so. (not it's not) This game has a story campaign where Wally is supposed to defend the collective of villages called the Weedom (420 blaze it) from the insect invaders led by the Queen Pede. Come to think of it, tying Centipede to some kind of weed-related setting makes sense. The colorful trippy visuals certainly help. A winter wonderland with wonderful bisexual lighting, spiky cliffs with light blue towers scattered around them, looks real nice! The centerpiece of this screenshot is a beautiful golden spire with a golden disc aligned horizontally near the top, surrounded by floating crystals and what look like frozen mushrooms scattered on the purple-blue ground. The spire-shaped structure has a bit of that Starcraft Protoss structure style. I wouldn't mind them constructing additional pylons of this sort. A closer look at our hero Wally with his short spiky anime hair, huge spectacles and a bewildering look while wearing a radioactive-green shirt, strapped onto the seat of his hovercraft with purple-orange straps. He looks like he doesn't have a clue about what's going on. It's the benefit and the curse of being the protector of the Weedom.
November 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Lattice 200EC7 (PS1) (2000)

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As we pee our pants, we go through a majestic silver hexagonal tunnel and into our beautiful and bright future where this has happened and there's no reason to fear it anymore. It's just a part of life, and that's OK. We enter a new world, filled with brutalist floating concrete blocks, an impenetrable megastructure apart from one small entrance. There are three floating red, pinkish hexagonal capsules with a sawblade or a vortex kind of shape inside them, rotating around the metallic rails you life takes you on. It symbolizes the obstacles in your life that feel insurmountable, but there's a golden path beyond that, so you just need to cut through with the pink cyber-saws of change and achieve your goals. You can do it! Another level map screen, this time consisting of a structure that looks almost 4D, like a tesseract, surrounded by a dizzying and hypnotizing wave of concentric circles with a pink-ish core with some ventilator blades I guess who knows. There's also a couple of green rectangle shapes on the left kinda sticking out but I think I might've borked something when taking the screenshot. The three green, red and blue cyber-runes are again visible on the map. This means that if you're stuck, you need to implement four-dimensional solutions - not just existing in 3D space, but also incorporating time and movement in your life, meaning you have to start moving and doing things. Live by doing, not just thinking, even if you make mistakes (the borked green rectangles). The chrome road takes us through a gauntlet of weird spindly stripey spires going up and down, forming a spiral so you have to rotate around the rails and avoid the spindles in order to finish the level! This means that you have to avoid the spindles in order to finish the level.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Lattice 200EC7 (PS1) (2000)

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Lattice 200EC7 is a very abstract and unique on-rails shooter where the player rides and rotates around these metallic rails while trying to shoot and destroy 3 colored key capsules and open their corresponding gates and finish the level, all the while listening to groovy electronic tracks by Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra fame. This is the level select screen showing a purple-ish cyberspace void with different nodes and connections between them serving as the level select screen. Since this is a totally weird and abstract game, I'm just gonna give my own interpretation of the art that is in front of me. In the void of space there's these two yellowish light spheres (representing the dreamer's physical need to pee) hovering around a complex megastructure of cyber-steel and three colorful cyber-runes (I think it's just showing you the layout of the level, as if that's gonna help you in this extremely disorienting game) representing the structure of neurons firing, shaping the dream where you're endlessly searching for a toilet but can't find one. There's also these giant gray shapes in the distance, almost like asteroids or moons but more organic, signifying that there might also be kidney stones in that pee. You can tell I'm in a weird mood today. Starting the level with a gray metallic road you have to ride on, with the gray meteoric shapes scattered in the far distance, breaking the cold darkness of cyberspace. There's a spiral, almost spine-like shape twisting around you and the road, enveloping you, with colorful shapes and cyber-runes glowing in the distance. This represents the feeling of your life spiraling out of control when you realize you've peed your pants. As we go through the spiraling road of pant-wetting, we arrive at a green cube enveloping the road, serving as an obstacle, or perhaps an opportunity? Four red triangles cover the edges of the screen, pointing at an explosion at the end of the road. This is your brain reminding you that the green pee you've been having for the past couple of days might be a sign of a UTI.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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S.C.A.R.S. (PS1) (1998)

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A look at a snowy rocky valley with a cool red aerial tramway hanging between the two steep cliffs. The entire scene is illuminated by the bisexual lighting of the purple-blue skies. A rocky road with a giant dinosaur skeleton sticking out of the side of the cliff. Judging by the plates sticking out of its back it might be a Stegosaurus, but it sure does have a big head if it is one. This might be the remains of the smartest big brained Stegosaurus there ever was! An amazingly surreal vista showing an airplane crashed in the side of a mountain while a big UFO saucer floats above it with its light scanning the plane. The skies have a curious mix of golden and desaturated clouds and shapes and the mountain range is strangle lit, with entire areas shrouded in darkness while others are well lit, as if some terribly dark clouds cast shadows on them while the UFO is lighting up the other side like it's a tiny diorama. Another shot at the "Cheetah" car (you know what, I take it back, it has like side stripes with a cheetah fur like pattern, it's a cheetah) doing a mad drift through a wide urban sci-fi road with an upcoming bridge underpass and a big billboard with the words "Win it !". He gotta win it even if he has to cheetah to do it. *ba-dum-tss*
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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S.C.A.R.S. (PS1) (1998)

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In the year 3000, supercomputers battle each other in racing simulations where each of their representative vehicle is inspired by a real life animal. Honestly, it does kinda sound like something AI might come up with these days... Here we see the "Lion" car doing a cool drift through a rocky road, surrounded by a lush jungle and approaching a tunnel with a stained glass ceiling. A rocky desert track with fiery red sunset skies with an awesome low poly bald eagle soaring through said skies. The symbol of the US of A has never looked so chunky. The "Rhino" car doing a drift through a lovely snowy road baskin in the purple light of the frozen sunset skies. The reflection map on the chrome car and the high detailed sprites for the wheels make this scene pretty good looking and kinda advanced even though some of it is trickery. The wheels are pretty impressive because they're just 2D sprites but have a very high number of frames depending on the view angle so they look very smooth! The "Cheetah" vehicle (it looks NOTHING like a cheetah btw) driving through some trench-like roads with high walls with a couple of tall city buildings and spotlights covering the right side of the night sky. It's a pretty cozy looking night city and the textures and colorful vertex lighting makes it looks very nice!
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Body Harvest (N64) (1998)

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Adam just barging into some poor man's house, asking questions and wanting them answered immediately. The Greek fellow has a mighty mustache and even mightier eyebrows, making up for his balding head. He's also wearing a really cozy looking white woolly sweater, very nice. The interior of the house itself is very curious. The floor is made up of man-sized ceramic blocks, giving it a very bath house look. The white worn off walls paint a very bland picture, with a fireplace in one corner. But then there are two massive pillars in front of the fireplace, worthy of the Pantheon in Rome. There's a neat chair and table on the other side with two candles, one lit, the other there for later when the party really kicks in. Adam still standing on the mustard ground of early 20th century Greece next to the aforementioned jalopy but this time visited by the most square low poly man you ever did see. His facial expression is the one of having pooped his pants. Our hero being blasted by bugs, this time manning (bugging?) their advanced tech turrets while Adam is just standing there trying to aim. Again, whomever tried to play this game while taking this screenshot is terrible at this game. 👀 Adam standing next to an awesome water fountain with a golden statue on top. I actually struggled to figure out what it was for a while until I realized it's a fish, at least I think it is. It's like an Origami fish, just like four triangles in a formation, it's great. This whole scene is very nice and calming, with yellowing cypress trees, a green hill in the distance and blue skies, the fountain sprinkling water and Adam is trying to aim his gun again. Stop that!
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Body Harvest (N64) (1998)

1/2
A look at a space station orbiting Earth, Station Omega, the last refuge of the human race from the alien invaders that have conquered our planet and are harvesting bodies as per the title. It's a three-pronged station with a satellite dish looking thing in the middle. The station is being attacked by the alien invaders with their red, claw-shaped fighter ships. Our hero, Adam Drake, wearing an orange-and-blue armor and helmet, with bare arms showing his muscles (and a bit of blood for a wound), looking all Captain Power like. He's looking over his shoulder for the pursuing insectoid aliens that are boarding the station. Behind him is a monitor with his colleague, Daisy Hernandez, pink hair and black headband, the portrait almost looks like a female Gambit from the X-Men. She advises him to hurry to the time traveling chamber and jump through time to stop the invasion from ever happening. Adam arrives in 1916 Greece, already infested with the bug-like invaders. One of the larger six-legged bugs is standing on the road on the left while our hero is trying to aim at it and failing miserably. Whomever was playing while this screenshot was being taken ain't very good at video games. 👀 Adam standing on a mustardy field (perhaps it's autumn I dunno) next to an early 20th century jalopy, looking very much like a 1916 Ford Model T (I googled it). The magical thing about this game is that it was developed by DMA Design who would eventually rebrand as Rockstar Games and the game feels like a proto-GTA with its open world design, a wide array of drivable vehicles and missions to do.
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Blasto (PS1) (1998)

2/2
An Evil Blasto Clone dressed in a dark version of the heroic outfit, with light blue hair and evil red eyes, being all nasty and evil and yelling. I wonder if he wants to be friends? Blasto contemplating a challenging course in front of him - a rotating hexagonal tunnel with a lot of missing panels, so the only way to get to the other side is to go along with the rotation and find the right path. I'm not sure Blasto is smart enough to pull this off. Another bodacious babe in skimpy clothing, but this time imprisoned by anthropomorphic red ants from Uranus, carrying her on a pole with her arms and legs tied to it. A very crude way of transportation, while they still have laser weapons and obviously advanced technology. Maybe these Uranians are into some kinky shit. Blasto finds himself underwater, surrounded by some sea grass, rocks and floating mines that look explosive in nature. It seems our hero's name might turn out to be an onomatopoeic depiction of his own demise!
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Blasto (PS1) (1998)

1/2
The game opens with a large sign saying "Welcome to Uranus" floating in space near a brownish celestial sphere shrouded in darkness (I bet it's Uranus *ba dum tss*) above some flat platforms and a stylish glass dome, all looking very very Looney Tunes like, specifically the spacey cartoons with Marvin the Martian. A bodacious red-haired babe smilingly waits to be rescued by our hero. Like everything else, her outfit is very 50s retro-futurism coded. A Pikmin-looking green alien with a dangling antenna with a red bulb on top is shooting at you with his fancy laser gun, looking very stylish in his pink astrosuit. He's standing in front of what looks like a glass wall next to a street light. Very noir and abstract at the same time, this street in deep space, going nowhere. Our hero, Blasto (voiced by Phil Hartman no less) in an intense encounter with an alien, set on a lava covered planet with floating pieces of land scattered here and there and a tree that's somehow survived in this hellscape. Good work, tree! The clear night sky is visible on the horizon with a large planet with a ring orbiting in the distance. How anybody is able to breathe in these environments is anybody's guess.
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Fighting Force (PS1) (1999)

2/2
A first person look at a sci-fi lab with huge cylindrical vats of radioactive green goo with amazing colorful vertex lighting that everybody in the late 90s/early 2000s was excited about (I love it!). There's a beefy looking fellow just walking past you, wearing like a brown stripy shirt that's probably just wrinkled but it looks like it's got tiger stripes and he's wearing a metallic helmet but like it has a very long visor or brim. Kinda looks like his forhead has a beak. Oh and also his katana is very erect. Hawk, now wearing snow camo (seasonal outfits yay!) is doing the most extreme, cool and batshit crazy snowboarding stunt, jumping off of a high ledge, onto an unsuspecting soldier and grinding his god damn face (get your head out of the gutter) with his snowboard! YEEEEEAAAAAHHH! Just a zombie visiting a gas station in the middle of nowhere at 3 AM. Also the sky has a disgustingly awesome gradient of green and brownish-red that you never ever see anywhere anymore. I gotta say this looks damn cool! It's a flat urban cityscape with an absolutely towering ziggurat of a corporate building in the middle, with a central tower that's almost as tall as the pyramidal part of it. A helicopter is resolutely flying towards it for a final showdown. The sky has a beautiful peach colored gradient and the whole scene is just so very Blade Runner.
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM